(+) Proverbs 10-31 (2009 Fox), book

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Proverbs 10-31 (2009) is a book by Michael V. Fox.

Abstract

English commentary on the Book of Proverbs. Following of Proverbs 1-9 (2009 Fox), book.

"This volume completes Bible scholar Michael V. Fox's comprehensive commentary on the book of Proverbs. As in his previous volume on the early chapters of Proverbs, the author here translates and explains in accessible language the meaning and literary qualities of the sayings and poems that comprise the final chapters. He gives special attention to comparable sayings in other wisdom books, particularly from Egypt, and makes extensive use of medieval Hebrew commentaries, which have received scant attention in previous Proverb commentaries. In separate sections set in smaller type, the author addresses technical issues of text and language for interested scholars. The author's essays at the end of the commentary view the book of Proverbs in its entirety and investigate its ideas of wisdom, ethics, revelation, and knowledge. Out of Proverbs' great variety of sayings from different times, Fox shows, there emerges a unified vision of life, its obligations, and its potentials."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009 (Anchor Bible, 18B).

Contents

Reading Proverbs as a collection -- Reading a proverb -- The dating and social setting of the proverb collections -- Proverbs 10:1-22:16--"proverbs of Solomon" -- Proverbs 22:17-24:22--"words of the wise" : the thirty maxims -- Proverbs 24:23-34--more words of the wise -- Proverbs 30:1-31:31--four appendices -- The growth of wisdom -- Ethics -- Revelation -- Knowledge.

External links

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